The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
The c., H. and ID. and Pennsyl
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-Cincinnati Enuuirer.I

Clncinnatl enquirer.
That the Pennsylvania people are building
from Red Bank, on the Little Miami Division
of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis, to
Hamilton, is we'll known, and it is also known
that their purpose in building this piece of
road is to obtain an independent entrance to
this city for their Chicago Line, they having
for a number of years obtained entrance over
the c., II. and D., using the Cincinnati. Rich
mond and Chicago Branch of the c., H. and
d. from Richmond, Ind.
There has been a great deal of talk to the
effect that the Pennsylvania people would
either buy or lease the Cincinnati, Richmond
and Chicago from the c., II. and d. people,
and thus, upon the completion of the Red
Bank extension to Hamilton, have an independ-
ent through line from Cincinnati to Chicago,
via Richmond. 1t has recently developed that
the Pennsylvania people do not intend buying
or leasing the c., r.. and c., but will parallel
that road by constructing a line from Hami!-
ton to Richmond. As announced some time
since in the Enquirer, the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton syndicate has secured the
Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Road,
which extends from Anderson, Ind, to Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, {. distance of two hundred
miles.
The Pennsylvania people made a PROPOSE
ton to the c., Ii. and D., with the view of
making a traffic contract over the Cincinnati,
Richmond and Chicago, between Richmond
and Hamilton, a distance of forty-fve miles.
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the traffic arrangement provided the Pennsyl-
yania people would make a similar arrange
ment with them over the Pennsylvania line
between Anderson and Richmond, a distance
of forty-nine miles, so that they could have a
through line to Cincinnati via the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan and the Cincinnati,
Richmond and Chicago via Anderson, Rich
mond and Hamilton. The Pennsylvania peo-
pie refused to enter into any such reciprocal
arrangement, and, as a consequence, the c.,
H. and d. people will parallel the Pennsylva-
MIA line between Anderson and Richmond,
and the Pennsylvania people will, as stated.
favor the c., H. and d. people with a parallel
line between Hamilton and Richmond. The
c., H. and d.. expects to get into Chicago with
the Cincinnati. Wabash and Michigan by a
connection with the Nickel Plate at Argos,
niuety-two miles out of Chicago, or at Boil
var, on the Chicago and Atlantic.
The above appeared in the Enquirer last
month, and at the time was said by the know
ing ones to be without foundation.
An official announcement was made yester-
day by the c., H. and d. people that the nego--
~tiations between the c., 81. and d. and Penn
sylvania regarding the Richmond Branch are
off, and that a party will be at once put in the
field to survey and construct a line extending
the Cincinnati, Richmond and Chicago from
Richmond to Jonesboro (~seventy miles), via
Muncie to Marion, on the Cincinnati, Wabash
and Michigan Road, controlled by the Stay
ner Ives Syndicate, and that a traffic or run
ming arrangement will be made with the Chi
cago and Atlantic via Bolivar, thus making a
limo to Chicago.